kalista rework

Valiant Thor··2 votes·1,294 views

i want to propose an idea. i personally love kalista she is one of my favorite champs in playstyle, however you clearly see she is one of the least played champs. its so bad that i still find people that have no clue how her ult works just because they barely ever, if ever, see her played. i personally like playing her mid and on her own even top sometimes comparable to quinn, she is so fun and yet she has alot of useless stuff in her kit if played like that, and she just cannot stand her own down bot as an adc anymore. in a meta full of adc's with cc such as jhin/cait/ashe/mf etc she just fairs horribly, you can see her play and win percentage and see its not good at all.

what i propose is a rework, one that makes her viable on her own if you wish and one that can even bring her back down bot. what i suggest is getting rid of her current ultimate and the soulbound passive all together. if you have played kalista one of the best things to do is rush runaans simply for its passive because while kiting you will be hitting minions and the enemy at the same time being able to rend them multiple times due to its reset but this is heavily reliant on having to rush runaans otherwise she is very very slow and passive in laning phase. i suggest we give her ultimate the runaans passive as a passive. now her ult needs an active and something not too overpowering obviously, i suggest a movement and attack speed buff, something like youmuus active, as simple as that. i also think the slow on her e rend is kinda unnecessary since its really aimed at a final ability as opposed to the initial, so i think we should move the slow to her q to be able to start with a slow then kite a little bit then rend to finish them off.

as a recap change her ultimate to youmuus active with a runaans passive and switch the slow from her e to q. bam. done. kalista back in action and nothing too overpowering.

9 Comments

Arakadia1 votes

The whole reason Kalista is garbage tier is because of her toxic passive and large utility. Changing her ult into MORE kiting power would be insane. And keep her garbage tier.

Valiant Thor1 votes

what? i feel like your contradicting

Arakadia1 votes

Kalista made immobile champions not-viable unless their super mobile. Your letting her keep that toxic af passive, and giving her more kite power.

Valiant Thor1 votes

well yes but im not saying they cant balance that, this is more mechanic rework than it is damage output, the damage scaling can be balanced that way the opposing team can respond easier

Arakadia1 votes

You left her toxic passive, and gave her more kiting power. Your encouraging her current problem. Currently, she has terrible stats because of her insane kiting power.

Valiant Thor1 votes

that makes no sense

Valiant Thor1 votes

the thing is, is that every other adc should be able to 1v1 anyone on the team if they played a good game, vayne can definitely do this and pretty much every other adc can but kalista cannot, she is reliant on her babysitter to support her the entire game

Leo10241 votes

she has a very unique kit so it's super hard to balance her, same thing goes for azir, they were both great at one point and had great damage with amazing kits, but it proved too powerful and they were nerfed to the ground, they will be getting reworks soon this has been confirmed but who knows what riot will come up with

Valiant Thor1 votes

yeah i definitely understand that but its not a matter of being overpowered or not, its really a matter of timing, for example they both have very strong late games but not so strong early games, and decent mid games, so instead of nerfing them completely just tweak their scaling so that they are more powerful early game than they are now but nerf the scaling so that they dont get overpowered late game

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